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Coming Home
Coming Home | Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford
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From the nine-time womens basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalista raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian womens basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittneys world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publiclyuntil now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of Americas forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. And yet Coming Home is more than Brittneys journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her familys support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to lovethe bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.
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Coming Home | Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford
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WNBA players “earn about 250 times less than NBA players and have a hard cap on salaries. In the WNBA that year I made around 220,000. Overseas, I earned a million plus. That pay gap is why I was in Russia in the first place.”

Bookwormjillk Didn‘t realize she has a book out 3d
Smrloomis @Bookwormjillk just published! I was super excited to borrow a copy at my local library. 3d
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Megabooks
Megabooks
Coming Home | Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford
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#TuesdayTunes

NGL the past two days have been rough. I started Dupixent for my mast cell activation syndrome and two other conditions, and the side effects have hit hard. I‘ve felt like I‘ve had a bad cold all day. But life doesn‘t stop. I‘m still the healthiest in the house (fwiw), so it‘s been a busy day. My upbeat mix from Spotify and Brittney Griner‘s memoir are keeping me company. I just keep hope that someday I will get my life back!!

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Megabooks Oh and my vote worst song: A Horse with No Name by America. Yuck! Oh and Tempted by Squeeze. That played CONSTANTLY at the bookstore where I worked in high school. I still hate it. (edited) 5d
Soubhiville I hope your health improves and the side effects smooth out. It‘s hard feeling like your body is out of your control. 5d
Megabooks @Soubhiville thank you!! I keep trying to remind myself that it might be a long journey back to being healthy. Just trying to be patient! 😬😬 5d
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TieDyeDude The three artists on the playlist name are an excellent start for an upbeat mix! It's good that you were able to find one medication for multiple issues. Taking a drug cocktail is never fun.
I'm not the biggest 80s fan, so I'm not going to argue with Tempted, but I do have a soft spot for America :)
“Thanks“ for playing 😉 5d
LiteraryinLawrence 💗💗 That sounds hard. Sending hugs! 5d
Megabooks @LiteraryinLawrence thank you!! 💜💜💜 5d
Megabooks @TieDyeDude I think I‘ve trained my algorithm pretty well on Spotify. Their curated playlists are generally pretty decent for me. I‘ve been listening to a lot of OutKast recently. Each of their albums are so distinctive! And thank you!! 😁 (edited) 5d
CarolynM Oh dear, Tempted is one of my favourite songs, but I understand about hatred through overexposure - that‘s Careless Whisper for me🤣 I hope the side effects settle down and the meds work for you💕 5d
BarbaraBB You‘be been so patient, and I hope the meds will kick in and be of help for you. In the meantime I love that playlist😍😍 5d
Bookwomble I hope the benefits of your treatment aren't too long in coming through ❤️ 5d
Bookwomble @CarolynM Tempted is one of my favourites, too 😊 I'm kinda partial to Horse With No Name, while I'm fessing up 😄 5d
Reggie I hope you feel better Meg. 4d
Smrloomis Sending good thoughts for your health!! 3d
Megabooks @Reggie Thank you! I'm finally feeling better today. That Dupixent really threw me for a loop. It's supposed to get better over time, which is good. 2d
Megabooks @Smrloomis Thank you so much! 2d
Megabooks @CarolynM Oh I love Careless Whisper. (“Guilty feet have got no rhythm“ is a perfect song lyric to me!) So funny we feel opposite! I'm finally feeling better today. Thanks for checking in! 2d
Megabooks @BarbaraBB Finally feeling better today. I was just exhausted for several days, but I guess that's just the medicine priming my immune system. I hope I see positive effects. 2d
Megabooks @Bookwomble Oh no! Sorry I chose a couple of your faves. We're all so different in tastes. I feel better today, but they told me it will take a few doses before I start to notice positive effects. 2d
Bookwomble @Megabooks Glad to hear you're on the mend 😊 2d
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HettyG
HettyG
Coming Home | Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford
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Y‘all listen UP!! Do not sleep on this one, I only just finished the prologue but I am thinking about playing hooky from work to listen to it all day long.

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